Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soldiers Field this spring has presented a somewhat melancholy picture to those who still stir at the sound of a clean single. And the contrast was tremendously noticeable yesterday, when the bleachers were filled not only with fathers, but with daughters, mothers, and brothers, all slowly burning in the warm sun. The Graduates make their own Cambridge these days, when the Seniors are in the height of their glory, quite removed from the brown-hatted individuals who but yesterday were complaining of divisionals. And in a few days more, after the center of affairs has drifted away...
From New York Europe withdrew a total of $35,000,000 in gold during the week. Almost the only place where the measure failed to stir popular excitement and financial fears was in the U. S. itself...
...Public attention should also be constantly called to the economic side of the liquor business. While we stir the moral sense we ought also to arouse the financial sense of the burden bearers of the business world. The care for the dissipated criminal classes, spawned upon society by this ruinous business, falls chiefly upon the sober and industrious. The burden imposed upon the resources of the American people by the liquor business far exceeds the cost of maintaining all the armies of Europe. Once let the American people realize how they are held up and robbed by this highwayman...
What an admirable way to avoid the issue by calling in the supernatural to explain the business cycle! The dithyrambic clap-trap with which the editorial ends is a fitting conclusion to this remarkable display of intelligence: "The silence of agitators who failed to stir is a challenge made by uneasy, yet confident labor, to those in the saddle to apply the crop and spur to a steed from whom much must be expected in the future." Henry Ehrlich...
...three. By 1915 she had published five volumes of verse. Novel-writing, suggested by Publisher William Heinemann, followed: The Unlit Lamp, The Forge, A Saturday Life, Adam's Breed, The Well of Loneliness. The last, sympathetically telling the story of a girl born sexually inverted, created a stir because of its literary merits, a scandal because of its theme. The scandal was not lessened by the fact that Authoress Hall wears mannish shirts and ties, a monocle on a cord, is called "John" by her friends. Suppressed in England, the book was vindicated...